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Comment by cloudp

This item is part of the new system blizzard is implementing in Wrath of the Lich King. This items are bought with tokens like Badges of Justice, the Emblems of Heroism, and Stone Keeper’s Shards, which are attained by killing any dungeon boss in Northrend while your faction controls Wintergrasp.. They bind on account and are interchangeable between any character of that account but not to anyone else's. This item's stats are the level 80 ones, since this special Heirlooms (the new item rarity created specifically to this purpose) scale with your level (Each time you gain levels it's stats increase). The enchants you can apply on them are the level 1 ILevel ones. Their incredible itemization will make your leveling easier and will most likely last to 80 since they are better than the average greens you get to that level.

If a special situatin on the kind of armor it displays happens (example: Warriors wear mail 1-39 plate 40-80), the item "transforms" into the new armor proficiency when you reach the required level.

In adiction, the shoulderparts will increase the experience you gain by 10%. It may sound like "meh. 100 exp becomes 110, big deal", but actually those 10%+exp will make the difference on you leveling's speed.

Spoiled Alts will enjoy this immensely. good one Blizz!

Edit, answering to Ixarus: No, it wont stay Mail, Plate wearers get their items changed as soon as they get Plate armor proficency - or else you wouldnt even be able to see Plate heirlooms, which you ARE able to.

You can get a full list of all Heirlooms here: http://www.wowhead.com/?items&filter=qu=7(notice, only Shoulder slot items have the +10%EXP bonus!)The actual (24-10-2008) available slot items are Shoulders (for all prficiencies and specs but tanks), Trinkets (for melee, caster, and Medallions) and Weapons/Ranged (For some reason, no Wands... This may change when Wrath comes. I sincerly hope so... 3 out of 10 classes use it, i dont see why it shouldnt be taken into account...)

Edit (05.06.2009) - Seems like blizzard changed the way +EXP bonus works. It now ALSO WORKS WITH QUESTS! This will definatly mean some serious ease in levelling. 10% less experience in those late 70s means abov 100000 experience saved, no matter how you grind! Yumm!

Comment by rednas3636

srry what does binds to account means?

Comment by Blindguard

Would be awesome to get this to level your alts, even though you can use armor higher than Cloth.

Comment by defektunge

An item with resilience that scales with your level... can someone say "twink item"? It might not be The Best Blue Ever for its level, but it will still be a level 19/29/39/49 item, which alone will make it better than most other gear available. Add in that it's specifically designed for PvP, and you have a winner.

Comment by dushkin

I would love it if somebody could post on how these shoulders scale and work for a priest (which will be either shadow or discipline for the purpose of leveling). I'm quite fond of that +10% XP.

It lacks spirit, which its emblem of heroism version has, though myself, saving for items for my main character, well..

Of course, it looks like primarily a PvP item and that doesn't worry me as stamina isn't a bad idea.

Regardless, I'm still considering just waiting until I can afford the ones with spirit on them. Any advice?

Comment by czokalapik

And what if i put shoulder inscriptions enchant on this? Will it become soulbound?

Comment by cuss

Items do NOT become soulbound when enchanted as a general rule. Only certain enchants bind the items, such as Aldor/Scryer inscriptions, faction head chants, and personal ring enchants (exclusive to enchanters for a reason -- it's their unique gear bonus).

...otherwise, people would be able to put an ensane enchant on a weapon, and transfer it to their level 1 characters, which would severely unbalance the game.

Many level 19, 29, and 39 characters have BoE items with enchants mailed to them, for example Lilanni has a head enchant which a level 39 CANNOT obtain except through this method (the soulbound item used in the enchant does not cause the BoE helm to bind in this case).

The only shoulder chants that ever worked this way were the old Naxxramas drops. Only a very, very small handful of people used these for twinking and are still around. A twink with a shoulder enchant is likely to be around 3 years old.

This "imbalance" is a reward to players who have the resources to do this. Contrary to popular opinion, twinking isn't easy. It makes you tougher than other characters your level, but only because you've spent the time, effort and gold with a higher level. It's reward for time spent just like any other advancement you can get; it's just a way to transfer those rewards between characters.

Heirloom items prove that Blizzard does not oppose twinking. There are quite literally NO blue shoulders topped out for 19, 29, 39, etc.

Comment by chimera

It is considered a lvl1 item, I could not apply the Aldor/Scryer enchant on it at lvl72, unfortunately.

Comment by zerothelegend

This is actually a really good item if you don't think you're going to buy many heirlooms. It works on all classes, and every class uses crit/stam/resil, so you're only wasting the spell power on a couple of classes.

If you plan to only buy one or two heirlooms to pass between your alts for the experience boost, this is probably the one you want.

Comment by Foxarm

A keen eye might notice that Highlord Demetrian in Silithus (Quest giver related to Thunderfury) is wearing shoulderpads that look like these.Guess he was powerleveling until he got stuck in Silithus =/

Comment by Kuismar

As of 3.1 Patch notes the spell dmg Items will recieve a buff.

Heirloom Items: The bonus spell power granted by these items has been redesigned to provide substantially more benefit for players lower than level 58.

Comment by Lucabrazi

Does this stack with refer-a-friend and rested xp bonus?I know the rested/refer a friend stack, but would all three?

Comment by hypnoticbob

Comment by Aisenfaire

As of patch 3.1, these shoulders now give a 10% exp bonus from both killing mobs AND quest reward exp.

Pre-patch 3.1, they only gave the bonus for killing mobs.

Comment by Corgyll

You can use any shoulder-enchant on BoA-shoulders now since the change in the 3.1 patch.But you need to fit the required lvl to gain the benefit, for example last night i enchanted my Polished Spaulders of Valor with the Scryer shoulder-enchant and it got on just fine,but i needed to be lvl70 to gain the extra attackpower and crit.

Comment by sky3union

Now that it also increases your XP from quest also (similar mechanic as in recruit-a-friend XP boost), heirloom shoulder item is a MUST for any 80 lving a toon..

No wonder I seem to notice a huge easiness in lvling. (My lock graduated Hellfire Peninsula at mid lvl 65. Even though there was rested XP involved, this is a major upgrade. My main paladin, who went through Instances a lot, graduated Hellfire at about lvl 64)

Comment by orunin

Use this macro to find the item stats at any level./script for i=1,80 do DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Level "..i..": \\124cffe5cc80\\124Hitem:44107:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:"..i.."\\124h\\124h\\124r"); end

Comment by CoryB

Actually, I was able to put Inscription of the Oracle on this item on my priest. I mailed the shoulders to my level 10 Warlock; the enchant did not disappear, it turned red and text below it appeared to say, "Enchantment requires Level 64"

My priest is also a scribe, and I was unable to put the inscription enchants on it though.

Edit: Not sure why you would downrate information that is correct that is not in any of the other comments, you CAN put this Scyrer enchant on the shoulders, contrary to what else is said in the comments.

Comment by Ohls

Just spent 440g on getting exalted with scryers just too find out you cannot use them on the heirloom shoulders."Target is too low level."

So that sucked a bit.

Edit: Hmm seems to be bugged.. I bought all of the enchants and tried, and none of them (except for inscription of oracle) works. Tho the oracle inscription does work. You only need honored to buy that one, so i guess i still threw 400g in the dustbin anyway :p

Edit 2: The enchant doesnt work until you reach lvl 64. That makes It pretty much worthless.

Comment by Drakkoc

czokalapik is only pointing out that the experience bonuses follow the Commutative law of multiplication, where it does not matter what order the numbers are in, the result will be the same.

For example 2 X 3 = 3 X 2.

In the same way, it does not matter what order the experience bonuses are applied. They will result in the same overall experience gained.

Let's say you kill a mob that gives 200 XP. If the rested bonus was applied to an experience gain before the BoA bonus, you would get

200 + 100% or 200 * 2 =400 XP

to which you would then add 10%:

400 + 10% or 400 * 1.1 = 440 XP.

If the BoA bonus is apllied first, you would get

200 + 10% or 200 * 1.1 = 220 XP

Adding the rested bonus would result in:

220 + 100% or 220 * 2 = 440XP

While you are getting bonus experience from a Refer-A-Friend, your Rested experience is not used, so if you are receiving bonus experience from RaF and BoA bonuses, the equation would be:

Base Exp * 1.1 * 3

which is the same as

Base Exp * 3 * 1.1

Even if both RaF and Rested were applied at the same time, the order of the bonuses would not affect the outcome. I'm sorry. It might be a lenghtly explanation, but people didn't appear to be grasping what czokalapik was saying. If you think the order will change the ultimate outcome of the experience earned, grab a calculator and try it :D

Comment by Cynwise

As of patch 3.3, cross-faction mailing of BoA heirlooms is now possible. But only on the same server.

Comment by Vagazuga

If you have shoulder enchant questions, I found the above comments all over the place and hard to follow, so here's a table for you min/maxers who are leveling pvp in style:

Comment by Keynan

Is there a way to see stats on this thing @ lvl 85? Do these scale up to lvl 85? Thx for help!

EDIT: Nwm. they improve only up to lvl 80

Comment by Dapants

can you mog boa such as this?

Comment by ampedal

Does anyone know if this can be enchanted? And which enchantment is the best to put on for a mage?

Comment by blamlock

I was able to purchase all of the Level 50 Argent Dawn shoulder enchants except for this one, from both Argent Dawn quartermasters, at Patch 4.3.3. Furthermore I was able to apply it to BOA shoulders and mail them to an alt. The alt has neutral rep with Argent Dawn and the enchant was active at level 50.

I do however acknowledge reports on Wowhead that this is not true for all players, I believe it depends when you acquired Argent Dawn rep and which quests you had completed.

If this doesnt work for you you'll have to wait for shoulder enchants available at later levels.

Comment by Gythis

Heirlooms CAN be sent cross faction, you may not attach any extra, non heirloom items, or gold however, you may only send the Heirloom item(s) and a message if you want. If you try to just send a letter without an heirloom, it will not allow it, if you try to send more that the heirloom, it will not allow it. (Acctually you 'may' be able to send gold, althogh i very highly doubt it, i just never tried). Hope this helped some of you who were wondering.